SELECTED PLAINTIFF’S RECOVERIES ($70,000 or more)*

 

$2,200,000 recovery for discharged male vice  president

$1,000,000 recovery for discharged fired male vice president

$1,000,000 recovery for discharged educator

$750,000 recovery for discharged male insurance executive

$700,000 recovery for constructively discharged male vice president

$375,000 recovery for discharged female executive

$350,000 recovery for discharged female securities broker

$350,000 recovery for laid off African-American engineer

$350,000 recovery for discharged African-American broadcast journalist

$300,000 recovery for discharged male automobile sales executive

$275,000 recovery for discharged male executive

$250,000 recovery for discharged male vice president

$250,000 recovery for constructively discharged securities broker

$225,000 recovery for discharged female vice president

$195,000 recovery for discharged female executive

$175,000 recovery for discharged female executive

$165,000 recovery for discharged male executive

$135,000 recovery for discharged male executive

$100,000 recovery for female harassment victim

$85,000 for discharged male computer technician

$85,000 for discharged male computer technician

*These cases reflect selected recoveries in excess of $70,000. Smaller recoveries have been obtained in many other cases. The foregoing recoveries are not predictors of the result that may be obtained in a case you may pursue. Naturally, each case is driven by the facts peculiar to it, and any other case, including one you might pursue, could be worth substantially less than those listed above. Moreover, no guarantee of success in your case may be inferred from the foregoing.

JAMES F. ELLIOTT, ESQ.

           

           James F. Elliott graduated Order of the Coif (5^th) in 1980 from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where he earned numerous American Jurisprudence Awards, including in Constitutional Law, Remedies, Conflict of Laws and Advanced Torts, and served as the Articles Editor of the Arizona Law Review. Mr. Elliott received his undergraduate education from Columbia University and the University of Arizona, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi in 1976 from the University of Arizona Honors Program (highest distinction) with a B.A. in political philosophy. After graduating from law school, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Thomas Tang, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. 

           

            Since 1981, Mr. Elliott has prosecuted and defended in all phases of complex commercial and employment litigation in hundreds of cases in the state and federal courts throughout California, including discovery, motion practice, bench and jury trials and appeal. He has similar experience in the alternative dispute resolution processes, including mediation and arbitration, and has appeared before numerous federal and state agencies.

 

            Mr. Elliott’s litigation skills were recognized by his appointment in 1989 to the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, the leading national institute for trial advocacy. He has also served as a member of the Trial Attorney Project with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. 

 

            Mr. Elliott also devotes a considerable portion of his practice to advising employers, executives and other employees in a non-litigation context in connection with virtually all aspects of employment relations, including planning and implementing all forms of termination, reorganizations and reductions-in-force, designing and negotiating contracts for highly-compensated executives, as well as drafting employee handbooks, and pre-termination investigation of employee misconduct (e.g., sexual harassment, defalcations, anti-competitive behavior). Mr. Elliott is admitted to practice in Arizona and California and litigates in all California state and federal district courts. Between 1981 and 2000, Mr. Elliott was associated and a partner with Irell & Manella, LLP, where he served as the labor and employment workgroup coordinator for fifteen years.

 

 

1.      Contributing Editor: California Practice Handbook: Employment Discrimination, Matthew Bender, October 1992. 

 

2.   Author: “Beyond McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co.: Using The After-Acquired Evidence Doctrine To Bar Discrimination Claims,” California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly, February 1996.

 

3.      Author: “The After-Acquired Evidence Doctrine: Is There Life After McKennon?” California Employment Law Reporter, Matthew Bender, May, 1995.

 

4.   Author: “After-Acquired Evidence Doctrine: Something Old Or Something New?” Association Of Business Trial Lawyers Quarterly, January 1994.

 

5.   Author:   “Nuts & Bolts Of Drafting Executive Employment Agreements And Independent Contractor Agreements,” presented by the Los Angeles County Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section, 1993.

 

6.   Author: “Defense Strategy In The First Ninety Days Of Wrongful Termination Case,” Second Annual Prentice-Hall Law and Business Labor and Employment Law Seminar, February 1993 and Business Law, Inc. Fall 1993.

 

7.   Author:   California Wrongful Termination And Discrimination Update – 1990 Developments, published by USC Law Center Institute For Corporate Counsel, 1991.

 

8.   Author: “Public Policy Wrongful Termination Actions,” Los Angeles Lawyer, October 1992.

 

9.   Author:   Assessing The Impact Of Shoemaker v. Myers And Rojo v. Kliger, published by the 12^th Annual Los Angeles County Bar Labor And Employment Law Symposium, 1992.

 

10. Chairperson: The 16^th Annual Los Angeles County Labor And Employment Law Symposium.

 

11. Moderator and Panelist: The 12^th-15^th Annual Los Angeles County Labor And Employment Law Symposiums, 1992-1995.

 

12. Faculty Member: National Institute For Trial Advocacy, 1989-1995. 

 

13. Co-Moderator: sixteenth Annual Los Angeles County Bar Labor and Employment Law Symposium Seminar entitled “The virtual Employment Litigator in the Cyber World,” March 1996.

 

14. Panelist: Los Angeles County Bar Labor and Employment Law Section Seminar, entitled “The After-Acquired Evidence doctrine Still Lives,” May 1995.

 

15. Vice-Chairperson: Fifteenth Annual Los County Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Symposium, March 1995.

16. Moderator: Los Angeles County Bar Labor and Employment Law Symposium Seminar entitled “Sexual Harassment Between Lawyers: Strategy and Tactics in Prosecution and Defense,” March 1995.

 

17. Moderator: Fourteenth Annual Los Angeles County Bar Labor and Employment Law Symposium Seminar entitled “Is It Ever Too Late? The Use and Abuse of After Acquired Evidence,” March 1994.

 

18. Moderator: Thirteenth Annual Los Angeles County Bar Labor and Employment Law Symposium Seminar entitled “How Exclusive Is Worker’s Compensation Exclusivity?” on the California Supreme Court’s decision in Litvitsanos v. Superior Court, March 1993.

 

19. Panelist: Prentice-Halls Second Annual Employment Litigation Institute, on the topic “Strategy and Planning in the Defense of an Employment Case: What to Do Before and During the First Thirty Days and Discovery Strategy,” February 1993.

 

20. Panelist: California Employment Discrimination Litigation Seminar co-sponsored by Matthew Bender and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, October 1992 and March 1993.

 

21. Panelist: Corporate and Business Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Seminar entitled “Drafting an Employment Contract: An Employment Lawyer’s Perspective,” April 1992.

 

22. Panelist: Americans With Disabilities Act Seminar in connection with an ALI-ABA Course of Study entitled “Not-For-Profit Organizations: The Challenge of Governance in an Era of Retrenchment,” April 1992.

 

23. Moderator: Twelfth Annual Los Angeles County Bar Labor and Employment Law Symposium Seminar entitled “Wrongful Termination and Employment Discrimination Litigation in the Aftermath of Rojo and Shoemaker,” dealing with the near-term future of California employment litigation, featuring former California Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin, February 1992.

 

 

1.      Member, Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Labor Law Section.

 

2.      Chairperson, Los Angeles County Bar Association Sixteenth Annual Labor and Employment Law Symposium, 1996.

 

3.      Vice-Chairperson, Los Angeles County Bar Association Fifteenth Annual Labor and Employment Law Symposium, 1995.